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I I I PROJECT Government Plans Mammoth Dam on Green River Will Rec Reclaim aim Much Land I The following story o or government experiments on Green river appeared in Salt Lal Lake e papers th other da day Vast areas of highly productive agricultural and grazing lands in northeastern Utah and particularly In Lucern valley will not only be benefited b by railway communications but by a navigable waterway extendIng extending extending extend extend- ing over a distance of f more than thanH fifty miles in the event that the federal federal fed fed- eral reclamation service builds a n dam at the mounth of o fie canyon on the Green river three miles south sonth I of Henrys Henry's fork I Ellsworth Daggett mining raining engineer engineer engineer engi engi- neer who is interested in land in InI I Lucern valley has returned from froma a atour atour tour of in northeastern Utah where he found g government engineers drilling for a dam foundation found found- foundation atlon in Horseshoe e canyon Mr 1 Daggett says he was Informed by K Kr Sawyer a reclamation service engineer engineer engineer engi engi- neer that diamond drill examinations have disclosed a solid rock foundation for Cor a dam Mr Sawyer in-charge in of examination examination examina examina- tion lion work worl displayed diamond drill cores cores showing that to a depth of feet there is solid rock in the bed of or the river along the proposed After penetrating a certain sandbar to the depth depth of of forty feet reclamation n service engineers found that it rested on solid rock They drilled on Int into tho rock and found round it to be of ot great depth Other examinations ll across oss the Hie river have met Ulet with the Ue same samo favorable In addition t PIa site for Cor the dam Isso is isso isso so situated that whenever the government government government gov gov- proposes to begin work worl the tho engineers will find it possible to di divert divert di- di vert temporarily the flow of oC the Green and be bo afforded an opportunity to begin building in a river bottom which practically will be dr dry This Tills is the result of at a topographical freak In winding through the gorge of Horseshoe canyon the Green Gree passes around sort of a peninsula which has hasa a narrow narrow Isthmus or saddle feet I lower than the peninsulas peninsula's highest I pont rising out of the canyon It bas lys been estimated that by digging digging digging dig dig- I ging a canal through this saddle it will be possible to divert the flow of or I I I I the Green be beyond ond the tho until I the dam Is s finished I If It the tile dam is completed it will back backwater backwater water up the Green asfar as ras far as as Green Green niver River City Wyo forming a navigable I waterway and holding back more tl titan feet acre of water This means a deep waterway from the Union Pacific railroad at Green River City directly to the east cast end lof of Lucern valley through the wonderful wonder- wonder ful Flaming gorge and Ladore canon canyon canyon can can- yon on which are reputed to have havo the 1 I finest bits hits of scenery in tho United I r rI I States SLates Naturally this waterway will attract transcontinental tourists into I stopping off of a aGreen Green River niver City and take talce a motorboat down the Green The waterway also would afford farmers In Lucern valley to ship their ir products to the market in barges hauled by motorboats Or sinco since a railway would have havo to be built to a al point near the damsite there also would be an opportunity to sl slip p products products products pro- pro I ducts to the marl market et by rail The Tho Lucern Valley operative Co Land I I Live Ll Stock company has already I acres of under land-under development In Lucern valcy valey with an abundant supply supply sup sup- ply Illy of irrig irrigation water The damsite in Horseshoe canyon which has been termed ont of best of or numerous reservoir projects under consideration n in connection with the tho Colorado river control scheme was Investigated by E. E C La LaHue LaRue LaRue Rue Hue of oC Salt Lal Lake e hydraulic hydraulic engineer engineer of the United States geological sur sur- sur- sur vey After he lie hod had made extensive examination of or the site silo reclamation service engineers began making damond drill tests Known as the Flaming gorge reser reser- reservoir reservoir voir site well up toward IH 3 headwaters headwaters head head- waters atel's of the Green it forms one of oC of the first units for co construction in the tho thel I Colorado river control project I Other units of the project under consideration consideration con con- comprise se the building of ot the biggest dam in at the they I Junction of or the Grand an and Green I rivers where they unite to C form rm ll tr-J tr j Colorado in the southeastern corner I of Wayne county and a dam at Lees Lee's ferry at the head of Marble in j j I Arizona and immediately s south uth of the tile Utah-Arizona Utah boundary line |